ACG Issues Updated Guidance on Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease

The American College of Gastroenterology recently published a guideline on alcohol-associated liver disease.

AUGUST 14, 2024

Expert Picks From the Liver Meeting, Part 1

In this installment, Ashwani K. Singal, MD, MS, discusses five of this favorite abstracts presented at The Liver ...

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

COVID-19 Has Lasting Impact on Liver Disease

Increased mortality rates for alcohol-associated liver disease and NAFLD among younger people and some ethnic ...

JANUARY 24, 2023

AI Algorithm Approach Distinguishes Between Alcohol-Associated Hepatitis, Acute Cholangitis

Supervised machine learning algorithms using information from blood tests alone outperformed physicians in ...

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Gastric Bypass Linked to Younger Onset of Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis

Undergoing bariatric surgery—particularly gastric bypass surgery—is associated with earlier development ...

AUGUST 18, 2022

Biomarker Panel May Help Predict Kidney Damage in Patients With Alcoholic Hepatitis

One of the first studies of its kind has concluded that interleukin-18 (IL-18) appears to be a specific biomarker ...

MAY 13, 2021

Expert Picks From The 2020 Liver Meeting

In this edition of “Expert Picks,” Ashwani K. Singal, MD, MS, identifies significant research in ...

MARCH 5, 2021

Expert Picks: The Digital International Liver Congress 2020

In this installment of “Expert Picks,” Ashwani Singal, MD, an associate professor of medicine at the ...

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Combination Therapy Increases Survival In Alcoholic Hepatitis by Blocking Interleukin

San Francisco— Combination therapy with zinc and the recombinant human interleukin-1 (IL-1) receptor ...

MAY 29, 2019

New Treatments Needed for Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis

Corticosteroids are the only remaining pharmacologic option for severe alcoholic hepatitis, according to a ...

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Infections Linked To Worse AH Outcomes

Patients hospitalized for alcoholic hepatitis do markedly worse if they have an infection on admission, according ...

JULY 11, 2016